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The doors of a revered 15th-century mosque hacked apart by jihadists in Mali's ancient city of Timbuktu four years ago were unveiled on Monday restored to their former glory. The "secret door" of the...More

Former Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki has accused authorities of pressuring a local TV channel to stop the broadcast of an interview with him, saying it was a case of state restrictions on media...More

An Egyptian court froze assets of five prominent human rights defenders and three non-governmental organisations on Saturday, provoking fears of an intensified crackdown on civil society. They had...More

A U.N. aid chief said on Monday that he was "pained and disappointed" that aid which has been sitting on the Turkey-Syria border for a week has not yet reached besieged eastern Aleppo. "I am pained...More

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's party suffered a historic loss in Berlin state elections on Sunday while the right-wing populist AfD gained fresh support, riding a wave of popular anger over her...More

Around one in four French Muslims, mostly young people, support an ultra-conservative form of Islam, including the wearing of the full-face veil, but the vast majority accept France's strict secular...More

An adviser to U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's campaign said on Sunday that Trump will meet with Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi on Monday during the United Nations General...More

At Murree Brewery, home of Pakistan's national lager, vintage copper boilers belch odorous fumes as they churn out 10 million litres of beer each year. Hundreds of tonnes of gin and whisky are stored...More

The United Nations has urged Syria's government to allow immediate aid deliveries to hunger-stricken civilians on Friday after a fragile ceasefire was extended for 48 hours by Russia and the United...More

Sitting by her son's hospital bed, Houdaid Masbah looks at her 5-year-old boy's skeletal body and sunken cheeks, helplessness engulfing her like a thick cloud – a desperation she shares with many...More

India promised $1 billion in aid to Afghanistan during a visit to New Delhi on Wednesday by President Ashraf Ghani, making a down payment on stabilisation and reform ahead of a major donor conference...More

There are those who come from countries at war, others who saved their entire lives and some making the pilgrimage for the umpteenth time. They are among more than 1.8 million Muslim faithful who...More

Women in burkas and those wearing surgical masks should refrain from concealing their faces in public, the Philippine president's mayor daughter said on Thursday, describing the measure as aimed at...More

Anti-immigration politician Pauline Hanson warned on Wednesday that Australia was in danger of being swamped by Muslims and told those unwilling to give the nation their undivided loyalty to "go back...More

Police were on the hunt on Tuesday for a man who set fire to a veiled British woman's clothing in Manhattan, as the American Muslim community faces growing Islamophobia. The attack took place late on...More

For students Omeyma Jebali and Sofia Abbou a ban on the burkini swimming costume, though now lifted, has ruined the allure of the beaches of southern France, unleashing a debate that seemed to them...More

The UN's Syria envoy applauded a "significant drop" in violence on Tuesday through the first 24 hours of a fragile ceasefire but said security concerns meant aid convoys stayed on hold. The truce...More

Under a bank of monitors broadcasting live footage from more than 5,000 cameras, Saudi officers have kept their eyes on every route and gathering spot at this year's hajj pilgrimage. As custodians of...More

Indonesia's top Islamic clerical body said Wednesday it has issued a fatwa against intentionally starting forest fires in a bid to stop the blazes that cloak Southeast Asia in haze every year. The...More

Barred from Mecca amid an escalating spat between Tehran and Saudi Arabia, masses of Iranian Shia faithful have converged on the holy Iraqi city of Karbala for an alternative pilgrimage. The row that...More

Saudi Arabia has launched Persian-language television broadcasts from this year's hajj, the information minister said on Sunday, following tensions with Iran over the annual pilgrimage. Minister of...More

The surprise candidate in Morocco's legislative elections next month is an ultra-conservative preacher who says political Islam is the best tool for tackling violent extremism. Cleric Hammad Kabbaj,...More

The hajj is no longer an old person's ritual as a new generation of youthful Muslim pilgrims has transformed both the annual rites and Mecca itself. "The younger you are, the easier it is," says...More

US Secretary of State John Kerry flew in to Geneva on Friday to meet his Russian counterpart once again, seeking a deal with Moscow to restore a ceasefire in Syria. Senior officials travelling with...More

Former UN secretary general Kofi Annan urged better cross-border co-operation between Bangladesh and Myanmar on Thursday in order to resolve the conflict between Buddhists and Muslims in Myanmar's...More

By Thursday close to 1.5 million Muslims from around the world had descended on Saudi Arabia for the annual hajj pilgrimage, undeterred by last year's stampede disaster but with Iranians absent. As...More

A hairdresser went on trial in Norway on Thursday for refusing a Muslim client wearing a hijab, in the first case in the country to go to court over the Islamic head covering. Merete Hodne risks up...More

Top diplomats from the United States and Russia on Monday failed to reach a deal to ease fighting in Syria, US officials said, after government troops encircled rebel-held parts of Aleppo. A senior...More

Twice as many British people support a ban on women wearing a burka than oppose one, with a majority also in favour of outlawing the burkini, according to a poll published last Thursday. Some 57...More

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Party (CDU) has lost its position as second-strongest party in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern to the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD),...More

Ahead of Sunday's elections in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the head of the German Jewish community said the rise of the right-wing populist and anti-migrant AfD party was "...More

In a vigil on Friday marking the first anniversary of the drowning of Syrian toddler Alan Kurdi, campaigners urged the British government to take in almost 400 unaccompanied children stranded in the...More

Australia is to start targeting jihadist support and logistics resources in Iraq and Syria, as it broadens the scope of its air war on the Islamic State group, officials said on Thursday. The staunch...More

Gernot Erler, the German government's point man on Russia, urged the United Nations on Thursday to seek sanctions against Syria for two chlorine gas attacks on civilians, despite Moscow's threat to...More

Pakistan has requested that Britain take action against a self-exiled party leader who delivered a speech by phone last week that ignited rioting in Karachi, Pakistan's Interior Ministry said on...More

A Pakistani entrepreneur has developed a mobile game app intended to break taboos surrounding menstruation in the developing world, including beliefs that periods are "evil" or make women impure. "...More

The silhouette of an Islamic State fighter on a rearing horse, a black flag in his hand and a sabre by his side, is among the disappearing traces of the jihadists' grip on this Syrian border town a...More

Run-down roads, reckless driving and poor vehicle maintenance are all being blamed for a spike in deadly traffic accidents in Tunisia that has safety experts worried. At least 16 people were killed...More

France's government sought on Monday to open a new chapter in relations with the country's Muslims following a summer scarred by jihadist attacks and a ban on burkinis that ratcheted up communal...More

Turkey's dramatic intervention in Syria could prove a setback for the Islamic State group – but it forces the United States to make a difficult choice between two unpredictable allies. Washington has...More

Pakistani police raided a madrassa in the restive south-western city of Quetta and detained 106 illegal Afghan students, officials said on Monday, as the government stepped up a campaign to rein in...More

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Muslims all over the world are currently observing Ramadan. The month of fasting is supposed to be all about reflection, meditation and abstention - but Ramadan is becoming increasingly commercialised.